LOVE QUOTES XXIV

quotations about love

love quote

Love is a kind of warfare.

OVID

The Art of Love

Tags: Ovid


Love is the building blocks of creation, love is the substance from which we are made. From love, to love, by love.

MUNEERA RASHIDA

"What is love -- can it really be defined and explained?", The Guardian, February 12, 2016


I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

NORMAN MAILER

The Man Who Studied Yoga

Tags: Norman Mailer


Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

ROBERT FROST

The Master Speed

Tags: Robert Frost


At the beginning of a relationship we love with 100 percent of our heart. However, once we are hurt, we think that if we only love with 50 percent of our heart, it will not get hurt as much the next time around. But we end up getting hurt just as much. We have to give our relationship our full attention. We should not be afraid of love.

ANDREA BRISENO

"True love is built from broken pieces", The Rampage Online, March 28, 2016


I love your letters. How far is that from saying I love you? Well--about a mile. Two miles.

EDWARD ABBEY

The Serpents of Paradise

Tags: Edward Abbey


This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne


Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

FRED ROGERS

The World According to Mister Rogers

Tags: Fred Rogers


I love you pretty baby
You're the only love I've ever known
Just as long as you stay with me
The whole world is my throne
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' we can call our own

BOB DYLAN

"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'", Together Through Life

Tags: Bob Dylan


Why is the measure of love loss?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body


Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove,
Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate,
Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate
As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love:
He bears a load which nothing can remove,
A killing, withering weight.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"The Solitary"

Tags: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Love always has its price, come whence it may.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

"Miss Harriet"

Tags: Guy de Maupassant


O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.

W. B. YEATS

"Brown Penny"

Tags: William Butler Yeats


Some hold love to be for conquest, both of persons and of things,
But supreme love, all unheeding, straight forgets the gift it brings.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Caelestis"

Edwin Leibfreed published several books of poetry, including A Garland of Verse (1910), A Soliloquy of Life (1915), and The Man of a Thousand Loves (1932).


Love's language everywhere is known.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Language"


Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!

KENNETH RAND

"The Old Lovers"

Tags: Kenneth Rand


All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase--"I love you."

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Offshore Pirate"

Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald


False love is like the counterfeiter's coin,
A criminal deception.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"Love's Counterfeits"


Alas! is even love too weak
To unlock the heart, and let it speak?

MATTHEW ARNOLD

"The Buried Life"

Tags: Matthew Arnold


Love is a stream that will find its course.

JAMAICAN PROVERB